Leigh Hunt, editor of the Examiner, championed the young Keats, sheltered and was sheltered by Shelley, and went to Italy to edit a journal with Byron. Miller gathers the scattered evidence of these three friendships into a single account, tracing loyalties, debts, revisions to the dedication of The Story of Rimini, and the cooling of Byron’s goodwill as the years passed.
A careful scholarly study, first written as a Columbia dissertation, for anyone interested in the private lives behind English Romantic poetry. Download the free EPUB.